Student of the year

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Madalena Lemos was just awarded the award for best final-year physics student. Congrats Madalena!

Denis Pollney

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Denis Pollney, of the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca, visited us for some days. He gave a seminar to our group about gravitational wave fingerprints of binary black hole mergers.

Computation time at Milipeia

Our team (PI Helvi Witek) has been granted 100k CPU hours at the Milipeia cluster in Coimbra/ Portugal for the project “Dynamic black holes in generic spacetimes”.

UTL/Santander Totta Award

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Vitor Cardoso was awarded the UTL/Santander Totta award for outstanding researcher in the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. The official ceremony will take place in Dec.10, at IST Lisbon.